The female lead character, Shirl, (Leigh Taylor-Young) is briefly seen operating a Computer Space arcade game, marking the movie as one of the first to show the emerging pop cultural phenomenon of video games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esp24NI9ixs
After that, but before the Atari 2600, I played some desktop HP calculator Moon Landing game, which numerically showed your Altitude, Velocity, Fuel level, flashed a 3 count, you entered a fuel amount to burn, GOTO TOP. If your altitude was 0 and your velocity was sufficiently low enough, you won. If not, it gave some indication. LOL!!! It should have said, 030707 and make you turn it upside-down.
...we will have fusion reactors, spewing waste Helium, global warming will have been replaced with global swelling as the atmosphere enlarges. Polars bears will be living happily because they can use their chipmunk voices to lure baby whales closer to shore.
One crisis begets a solution which begets a different crisis.
This will prolly get modded half flamebait and half insightful... so what else is new...
If this VR universe theory were true, then the Simulator designed DNA, origins of life, and evolution. So... is that still evolution, or creationism.
But whatever... even IF this Universe were a VR simulation, there is still the question of where the Simulator came from. Did he/she/it/they/we evolve? heh heh... have fun.
My kid is a genetic gamer, with Controller Thumb to prove it. I wanted to give him a gift which would allow him to use his hand-skills and yet challenge his brain.
Since we have the Spoiler Alert above, I can say this...
In the Director's Cut, RS added the possibility that Deckard was a replicant, while the original (with voiceover) made us assume he was what PK Dick calls "An authentic human", and frankly, not a very good one. I and my BR fan peeps debated whether or not Deckard ***was*** a replicant, based on evidence from the movie. But we didn't really debate whether or not RS wanted us to debate it. He clearly wanted us to think that he POSSIBLY was. There were MANY clues in the Director's Cut that supported his Replicantshipiness. Not the least of which was the missing replicant, one of which "got fried." Some (not I) thought that Deckard was the missing replicant, re-programmed to kill the others. I always thought it was a continuity gaff. (Sorry for the pun)
I saw it in LA on the huge screen, and aside from the sheer grandeur of enhanced city effects, the most significant change was that they changed the numbers of replicants that arrived and were fried. THERE WERE NO MISSING REPLICANTS after this new, improved release. By changing that gaff, RS sent a clear signal that Deckard's Replicanticity was ***NOT*** a foregone conclusion. It is STILL left to the viewer to decide.
But I gotta tell you, I still prefer the voiceover. Although they fixed the "dead air" when Roy dies and Deckard just stares stupidly (sans voiceover), there is still too much lost without the voiceover. We really have no clue WHY Roy tried to kill Deckard, then saved him.
I was PRAYING that they at least added the original finale, with the "best line that most people have ever heard in a movie..."
"We didn't know how long we had... who does?
Someday, I'll get a bottle of Johnny Walker Black (notice the label on deckard's booze... AND ROY'S!!!) rip both versions into an iMac (with voice command... Enhance 34 to 46. k'ch k'ch k'ch beep beep beep) and make my own cut. Or, maybe someone has already beat me to it?
If I could get a $100 laptop that ran a stripped down XP? I'd wallpaper my house with them! OLPR (One Laptop per Room and two in the LOO!) And then, when Vista 2012 comes out, and they want me to upgrade for some super new feature (like being able to print a date (human-type)... I WILL TELL THEM TO KISS MY SHINY METAL XO! Because anything that I need really DOES run on XP, and whatever they are trying to peddle will have the built-in hardware upgrade cost.
A Grid Networking cheap laptop that runs what I've been running at work for 6 years? That would spread through universities and many businesses like Ice-9. Whole universities and neighborhoods would become one single grid. Comcast would have one cable modem per 10 square miles. The market would freeze over to XOs and MS would have to shove Office 2012 down the throats of those using Office XP, as content as a MS user can be. WHY WHY WHY would we upgrade to Vista 2012? SIgn me up!!! And let's start freezing MS with their own OS!!!
NO, no, no... DNA and carbon-based life was an accident. The life forms of a bajillion years ago were evolved from carbon nanostructures and interstellar dust, what we would call robotic lifeforms. The DNA liquid crystals were an accidental byproduct of failed display technology. One of the researchers accidentally punctured his liquid crystal display with a tool, rinsed it off in salt water, it drained into a sewer full of salt, iron, trace metals and lots of carbon (hey, robotic life has to poop), and off it went.
Ironically, those carbon nano based lifeforms were wiped out in a mutual jihad as they fought over whether or not the billions of lines of code that defined their existence evolved through chance or were part of an "intelligent design".
Hey, that makes as much sense as the Bible AND the Evolutionists put together.;-)
I don't anymore. Mostly because of the controllers. I've been gaming since day one. That yellow ship vs. saucers game seen on Solyent Green!? Played it, with my dad.
I played Quake against my boyz (4 and 7), but it became increasingly difficult to afford enough machines to play the oncoming games. So I bought an XBox. But after 25 years of computer gaming, the controller is all wrong. joystick on left thumb!? WTF? I played until the screen looking disease took over me. I got p0wned by my eight-year old... daughter. She made dad proud!!!
Get me the ability to play on a separate screen with a controller for people not born with one in their hands... and that's all I'd ever do!
Industries that need people to work for them;which in turn gave people more money to spend on thing like helping people. The tax return on the Apollo investment is many, many times it's cost. Funny, this sounds like Trickle Down economics. If the tax return supposition is true, that is a perpetual motion machine, minus the entropy of politics. Which was my initial point anyway. Gee, maybe I wasn't so wrong and ignorant after all.:-P
I don't object to them. I have just lost the vision of why we want to go there. I worked with Greg Jarvis at Hughes. I worked at the Cape and KSC. I became disillusioned at the politics and BS it took to get a kilogram of payload up. And for what in return?
The Laws of Celestial Mechanics are as unforgiving as the laws of Trickle-down economics. There is nothing out there worth the price of going. Does that mean we don't go? No, it just means we've passed the Point of NO return on Investment. -- A HREF="http://af2k.com/gavonslaws.asp">AF2K.com Now I'm involved in a not-for-profit which is trying to raise 4 billion people out of poverty. I guess I'd better turn in my Spacer's membership card.
I remember men landing on the Moon. I remember a listening to a record pressed onto a sheet of vinyl from a book with the voice of JFK saying "We choose to go to the Moon in this deCADE..." I became a rocket scientist to help us continue to go.
But if we had had this video, I wonder if we would have found something better to do with our time. I don't see any enticement to heave stuff up there.
Forgive me, follow rocket scientists, but the only "opportunity" I see here for space is for G00gl3 to launch a series of high speed projectiles to craterize (print) Adwords at 1 pixel per 30m.
I've been waiting for this, esp. since the iPhone came out and I thought 'if they just made this a little BIGGER...' I would literally hang the thing off my neck and swivel it up to use it. And heck, I could get one of those "power from clothing" fabrics and make a suit out of it. Different colors for different wattages. And headphones, so I can hear my music while I work, but mute to hear outside sounds better. Oh, and I could put a wi-fi antenna for better reception when I'm in the server room... oh, wait...
Obviously this person never copied anything to a floppy disk, then deleted without checking the disk. I used copy/v because MS was smart enough to compare the source and... ummm... destination... HEY WAIT A MINUTE!!!
[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126457] When you use the VERIFY ON command, or the/V switch with the COPY or XCOPY command, the MS-DOS file system uses the block device driver command code function 09H, Write with Verify. This verification process consists of confirming that the data just written can be read (for example, that the data was not written to a bad sector on the disk). No comparison of the source and destination data occurs.
To compare the source and destination files, use the MS-DOS FC (file compare) command after you use the COPY or XCOPY command. Ain't no school like ole school, baby.
A sarcastic smile? A sardonic smile? A wistful smile? A retail smile? The masked lie? "Mmmm... this casserole taste great, hunny"
Or the smile that Ballmer uses when describing Vista's security or sales milestones? The smile that Verizon execs wear when they promise "unlimited..."???
I can't remember an instance where I was trolling for a domain I didn't know, like HotelsInIshpeming.com, landed on a cybersquatter AND saw an ad that I clicked on. "Oh, look, they have percale sheets on sale at Ikea... click, click, spend... Ok, where was I... oh yes... HotelsInIshpeming...."
...then does money feel relativistic effects like the Lorenz Contraction? Time Dilation would also equal money dilation. Cool. That means that if you buy something at near C, it will cost less than in the inertial reference frame. That would also infer that if you COULD reach the speed of light, that dilation would be infinite, and you would have all the money in the universe.
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After that, but before the Atari 2600, I played some desktop HP calculator Moon Landing game, which numerically showed your Altitude, Velocity, Fuel level, flashed a 3 count, you entered a fuel amount to burn, GOTO TOP. If your altitude was 0 and your velocity was sufficiently low enough, you won. If not, it gave some indication. LOL!!! It should have said, 030707 and make you turn it upside-down.
And yes, you could get to depths lower than 0
Having your molecules re-rearranged will eventually take its toll, as well.
...we will have fusion reactors, spewing waste Helium, global warming will have been replaced with global swelling as the atmosphere enlarges. Polars bears will be living happily because they can use their chipmunk voices to lure baby whales closer to shore.
One crisis begets a solution which begets a different crisis.
This will prolly get modded half flamebait and half insightful... so what else is new...
If this VR universe theory were true, then the Simulator designed DNA, origins of life, and evolution. So... is that still evolution, or creationism.
But whatever... even IF this Universe were a VR simulation, there is still the question of where the Simulator came from. Did he/she/it/they/we evolve? heh heh... have fun.
"I kicked a boulder 1400 meters... and my boss told me to get serious, so I kicked him 1666 meters."
My kid is a genetic gamer, with Controller Thumb to prove it. I wanted to give him a gift which would allow him to use his hand-skills and yet challenge his brain.
I gave him a slide rule.
I heard an ancient prophecy that said that when the Wheel of Time of was ended, so too was Time.
I'm sure that was poppycock... heh heh... right?
Let's Get His Ridleyness on an Ask Slashdot and have our way with him!
First question... What's with you and Unicorns!? (Anyone see Legend?)
Since we have the Spoiler Alert above, I can say this...
In the Director's Cut, RS added the possibility that Deckard was a replicant, while the original (with voiceover) made us assume he was what PK Dick calls "An authentic human", and frankly, not a very good one. I and my BR fan peeps debated whether or not Deckard ***was*** a replicant, based on evidence from the movie. But we didn't really debate whether or not RS wanted us to debate it. He clearly wanted us to think that he POSSIBLY was. There were MANY clues in the Director's Cut that supported his Replicantshipiness. Not the least of which was the missing replicant, one of which "got fried." Some (not I) thought that Deckard was the missing replicant, re-programmed to kill the others. I always thought it was a continuity gaff. (Sorry for the pun)
I saw it in LA on the huge screen, and aside from the sheer grandeur of enhanced city effects, the most significant change was that they changed the numbers of replicants that arrived and were fried. THERE WERE NO MISSING REPLICANTS after this new, improved release. By changing that gaff, RS sent a clear signal that Deckard's Replicanticity was ***NOT*** a foregone conclusion. It is STILL left to the viewer to decide.
But I gotta tell you, I still prefer the voiceover. Although they fixed the "dead air" when Roy dies and Deckard just stares stupidly (sans voiceover), there is still too much lost without the voiceover. We really have no clue WHY Roy tried to kill Deckard, then saved him.
I was PRAYING that they at least added the original finale, with the "best line that most people have ever heard in a movie..." "We didn't know how long we had... who does?
Someday, I'll get a bottle of Johnny Walker Black (notice the label on deckard's booze... AND ROY'S!!!) rip both versions into an iMac (with voice command... Enhance 34 to 46. k'ch k'ch k'ch beep beep beep) and make my own cut. Or, maybe someone has already beat me to it?
SIGN ME UP! This would KILL Vista forever!!!
If I could get a $100 laptop that ran a stripped down XP? I'd wallpaper my house with them! OLPR (One Laptop per Room and two in the LOO!) And then, when Vista 2012 comes out, and they want me to upgrade for some super new feature (like being able to print a date (human-type)... I WILL TELL THEM TO KISS MY SHINY METAL XO! Because anything that I need really DOES run on XP, and whatever they are trying to peddle will have the built-in hardware upgrade cost.
A Grid Networking cheap laptop that runs what I've been running at work for 6 years? That would spread through universities and many businesses like Ice-9. Whole universities and neighborhoods would become one single grid. Comcast would have one cable modem per 10 square miles. The market would freeze over to XOs and MS would have to shove Office 2012 down the throats of those using Office XP, as content as a MS user can be. WHY WHY WHY would we upgrade to Vista 2012? SIgn me up!!! And let's start freezing MS with their own OS!!!
And so it goes...
NO, no, no... DNA and carbon-based life was an accident. The life forms of a bajillion years ago were evolved from carbon nanostructures and interstellar dust, what we would call robotic lifeforms. The DNA liquid crystals were an accidental byproduct of failed display technology. One of the researchers accidentally punctured his liquid crystal display with a tool, rinsed it off in salt water, it drained into a sewer full of salt, iron, trace metals and lots of carbon (hey, robotic life has to poop), and off it went.
;-)
Ironically, those carbon nano based lifeforms were wiped out in a mutual jihad as they fought over whether or not the billions of lines of code that defined their existence evolved through chance or were part of an "intelligent design".
Hey, that makes as much sense as the Bible AND the Evolutionists put together.
Do I also shorten the life of this post by reading it?
Let's all boycott buying Romantics albums!!!
That'll show 'em!
I don't anymore. Mostly because of the controllers. I've been gaming since day one. That yellow ship vs. saucers game seen on Solyent Green!? Played it, with my dad.
I played Quake against my boyz (4 and 7), but it became increasingly difficult to afford enough machines to play the oncoming games. So I bought an XBox. But after 25 years of computer gaming, the controller is all wrong. joystick on left thumb!? WTF? I played until the screen looking disease took over me. I got p0wned by my eight-year old... daughter. She made dad proud!!!
Get me the ability to play on a separate screen with a controller for people not born with one in their hands... and that's all I'd ever do!
I remember men landing on the Moon. I remember a listening to a record pressed onto a sheet of vinyl from a book with the voice of JFK saying "We choose to go to the Moon in this deCADE..." I became a rocket scientist to help us continue to go.
But if we had had this video, I wonder if we would have found something better to do with our time. I don't see any enticement to heave stuff up there.
Forgive me, follow rocket scientists, but the only "opportunity" I see here for space is for G00gl3 to launch a series of high speed projectiles to craterize (print) Adwords at 1 pixel per 30m.
I've been waiting for this, esp. since the iPhone came out and I thought 'if they just made this a little BIGGER...' I would literally hang the thing off my neck and swivel it up to use it. And heck, I could get one of those "power from clothing" fabrics and make a suit out of it. Different colors for different wattages. And headphones, so I can hear my music while I work, but mute to hear outside sounds better. Oh, and I could put a wi-fi antenna for better reception when I'm in the server room... oh, wait...
Someone beat me to it
That sucks, Nu-nu.
Maybe Sansa has so much market momentum from its "iPod Killer" that it can now throw its weight around.
Oh, wait...
A sarcastic smile? A sardonic smile? A wistful smile? A retail smile? The masked lie? "Mmmm... this casserole taste great, hunny"
Or the smile that Ballmer uses when describing Vista's security or sales milestones? The smile that Verizon execs wear when they promise "unlimited..."???
Educate me...
I can't remember an instance where I was trolling for a domain I didn't know, like HotelsInIshpeming.com, landed on a cybersquatter AND saw an ad that I clicked on. "Oh, look, they have percale sheets on sale at Ikea... click, click, spend... Ok, where was I... oh yes... HotelsInIshpeming...."
Are we, the clicking public, this A.D.H.D.?
Not to mention when Greg Lake briefly did bass/vocals, with Howe And Downes, and drummer Palmer... (Asia in Asia)
I just called it "Yes, Lake and Palmer"
There's a motivational book and lecture series there. At the very least, you could start a church. :-O
...then does money feel relativistic effects like the Lorenz Contraction? Time Dilation would also equal money dilation. Cool. That means that if you buy something at near C, it will cost less than in the inertial reference frame. That would also infer that if you COULD reach the speed of light, that dilation would be infinite, and you would have all the money in the universe.